Rushanara Ali

Rushanara Ali (14 March 1975-) was the Labour Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow from 6 May 2010, succeeding George Galloway.

Biography
Rushanara Ali was born in Bishwanath, Bangladesh in 1975, and her family moved to the East End of London when she was 7. She graduated from Oxford and worked as a human rights activist before being elected to Parliament as the Labour Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in 2010. She served as Shadow Minister for Education from 2013 to 2014, when she resigned in order to abstain from a vote on military intervention in the Iraqi Civil War.